Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Blessed Virgin and Egypt

The most recent appearance.
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Reports are the Blessed Virgin is once again appearing in Egypt - perhaps to strengthen and console the Coptic Christian undergoing such severe persecutions. The photo shown here is purported to be one of the apparitions which bears a resemblance to many other sightings since the famed Zeitoun apparitions which occurred in 1968-1971. Those apparitions were approved by the Coptic and Roman Catholic Church as being worthy of belief. I believe the early apparitions were considered to be a gift from heaven to strengthen and prepare the faithful for troubled times ahead.
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It seems to me Egypt is especially dear to Our Lady since she and the Infant Jesus and St. Joseph were given refuge there after they escaped the first persecution by Herod. The Coptic Church is known as the Church of martyrs.
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I believe that these apparitions are re-enacting the Holy Family's flight into Egypt to escape King Herod's slaughter of the innocents. If you look at the timing of the original apparitions, you find that they occur in the same month and year that a new "slaughter of the innocents" began, with the implementation of the UK Abortion act, which was brought into effect in April 1968. It was this event which was the "slippery slope" that saw abortion being legalised throughout Europe and eventually the US and beyond. See http://unveilingtheapocalypse.blogspot.com/Love the blog by the way!

Veritatis Splendor

About Me

... My idea of what I am is falsified by my preoccupation about what I do. And my illusions about myself are bred by contagion from the illusions of other men. We all seek to emulate one anothers imagined greatness....If I do not know who I am, it is because I think I am the sort of person everyone around me wants me to be. I have asked myself whether I wanted to become what everybody else seems to want to become... only to realize that I do not admire what everyone else seems to admire. I have only thus begun to live after all... But it is very late. - Adapted from a quote by Thomas Merton

Holy Face of Jesus

Show us your face and we shall be saved. "Each soul is the object of My special love. That is why I am so grateful to those who are resourceful and bringing back sinners to Me. Keep this in mind then. I gave My life for them in the most atrocious torture, for these poor beloved ones. A humble repentance, and they are already on My heart. So speak gently to them. Speak with tenderness. A brusque remark could drive them farther away." - He and I

Prayer to St. Michael

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.